Clockwork Orange: Popular Penguins by Anthony Burgess
$13.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'What's it going to be then, eh?'In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?Social prophecy? Black co ...Show more
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
$26.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his ...Show more
A Handful of Dust: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dustis a satirical depiction of the 'sterile' generation between the wars. It tells the story of bored Lady Brenda Last, who abandons her husband's Gothic pile to conduct an affair with shallow socialite John Beaver of the Belgravia set. A Handful of Dustremains one of the fi ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
$18.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events of the French Revolution. This "Penguin Classics" edition of is edited with an introduction and notes by Richard Maxwell. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of ti ...Show more
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
$50.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
A special hardback edition of Murakami's brilliantly surreal, detective-story classic, A Wild Sheep Chase. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author. A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's brilliantly surreal, detective-story classic, now with a new i ...Show more
Adventure Stories from the Strand by Selected by Geraldine Beare
$27.50 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
$23.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
The calamities that befall the hapless creatures of Aesop's Fables! The fox can't reach his grapes, then gets attacked by biting flies and loses his tail in a trap. And things don't go much better for the hare, who is chased relentlessly by a hound, barely escaping with his life-only to be beaten in a r ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Popular Penguins by Lewis Carroll
$15.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author: Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures.The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson's friends (and enemies) ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass is a cherished collection of stories featuring the titular character, Alice, and her misadventures through the curious and fantastical lands of Wonderland. As little Alice goes deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole, she meets an assortmen ...Show more